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In the annals of absurdly sexed up science stories crying for attention like, oh, some addled TV star, we have...
The power of an elevated freeway to dominate and degrade a city’s streets is overwhelming. So much so that if...
Hungry kids may be getting less cheddar.The House Appropriations Committee has released a detailed list of budget cuts as part...
Road to ruin.Photo: Alfonso SurrocaCrappy urban development isn’t just ugly and noisy and dirty. It is turning out to be...
What if saving a rundown city wasn’t about building expensive new infrastructure — hardware, so to speak — but instead...
Map: RTDN.org and Google Maps What if Foursquare were good for something? It might look a little like this. Crowd-sourced...
This story was written by Shanti Menon. In her new book Asphalt to Ecosystems: Design Ideas for Schoolyard Transformation, Berkeley-based...
A while back, somebody, I can’t remember who, sent me a paper by two military officials, Capt. Wayne Porter (Navy)...
D.C. Council Chair Kwame Brown says he's in possession of "research" conducted by a first-grade pupil that convinces him schools in the nation's capital should bring back chocolate milk.